If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Relational Youth Ministry allows you to meet some amazing people. For a 5 year period of my life I spent my time working in a local high school and a youth prison. Whenever I did church talks I explained [...]
There was a specific time, a specific place, a specific young person that caused me to change to become a relational youth worker. It was summer (the kind that North Wales gets) and I was the Bible speaker at a youth camp for 15-17 year olds (about 30 of them). It was in a town [...]
Young people [and those not so young] have various needs that should be met by a well rounded youth ministry:
Social
Intellectual
Emotional
Physical
Spiritual
Each youth group will have it’s own particular blend of flavour - mainly depending on it’s leadership. If the youth leader is big into praying then so will the group; if they love games then the [...]
I have a theory that if we could all see ourselves as a brick then many of our pastoral and growth needs could be met - let me explain.
First though a question - how many bricks does a single brick ‘touch’ in a standard brick [this definition excludes half bricks] wall? No, it isn’t a [...]
Let’s start off by saying that I am not referring to linking computers together in your home office - in fact I am not talking about computers at all. I am referring to building relationships with other youthworkers and networking with them.
The theory is often looked at positively, being in a network can open opportunities [...]
I suppose I shouldn’t be amazed - but it takes so much effort to put on a training day [even when it is in-house for just our denomination]. So much that tomorrow I am sending out notification that we are changing the date as it just won’t come together in time.
As I dwell on some [...]
